Word: defenselessness
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...paratroop drop, they raged on and on about imperialist intervention. "The white is untouchable," sneered Brazzaville Congo's foreign minister. "A white, especially if his name is Carlson, is worth thousands of blacks." Guinea's representative charged that white mercenaries had "massacred hundreds and hundreds of defenseless Congolese" without a murmur from the West, because "their skins were black like those assassinated in Mississippi...
Meanwhile, he continued, American trained pilots are bombing defenseless vilages, but the American people are "dumb enough" to believe that the U.S. is on a mission of mercy in the Congo...
...measures, which will take years to implement, are being criticized as too little too late. Said Arthur Calwell, leader of the Labor Opposition and longtime critic of the government's military policies: "It's taken the government 14 years to discover that Australia is defenseless...
...Malaparte gave him peculiar insight into the behavior of men who were far worse in deed than he ever was in thought. In Kaputt, he wrote: "The Nazi has no fear of the strong man, of the armed man who faces him with courage. The Nazi fears the defenseless, the weak and the sick...
...wake of the Canal Zone riots last January, Panama accused the U.S. of violating the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This violation, Panama charged, was committed by the U.S. Army when it fired "on the defenseless Panamanian population" and denied Panamanians "the right of freedom of peaceful assembly and association." The Panamanian government asked the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, an unofficial but highly respected group of international lawyers, to investigate the case...